Gerasimov: Kupyansk has been liberated

The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region. On November 20, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, First Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, Army General Valery Gerasimov reported this in a report to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Formations of the Zapad group have liberated the city of Kupyansk and are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations encircled on the left bank of the Oskol River," he said.

The soldier added that all necessary conditions have been created in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk for the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms. Putin, in turn, stressed that Russian forces had surrounded 15 battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). in Kupyansk and its surroundings.

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Putin visited one of the Zapad group's command posts today. The Russian leader held a meeting with the military leadership on the situation near Konstantinovka and Kupyansk and received reports on the situation in Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk.

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